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Stapleford Community Farm

This coming weekend we are gathering on the land at Field Farm, Stapleford, Notts to discuss setting up a community here this spring. Acoustic music and food on the friday night, and a chance to check out the site and local area.

NATO’s fascist war

You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.”

Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days.

Public Meeting: The Case for Secularism

Sheffield Humanist Society | 01-04-2011 14:06 | Sheffield

Terry Sanderson will make the case for our tradition of secularism as the foundation of a good society. Human rights, equality under the law, freedom of religion and of expression all need a firm secular base and not domination by or conflicts between religions and sects.

Friday 8 Apr 2011, 7:30pm, Lecture Theater 6, The Arts Tower, The University of Sheffield

Sheffield BNP Meeting

Sheffield BNP will be holding a meeting tonight at The Malthouse Public Ecclesfield.

Japan: Triple Meltdown

Radio Ecoshock | 30-03-2011 21:50 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Confirmation that 3 reactors damaged, melting down in Japan. Civil defense info to protect yourself. Plus investigation into California reactor built on quake zone. Remember, a nuke accident anywhere in the world can arrive where you live.

Media disinformation: The protest movement in Syria

Presented below are four reports of the same protest movement in the Southern Syrian city of Daraa, Associated Press, The Guardian, Israeli National News, Ya Libnan (Lebanese News).

Spot the difference.

Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity: At home in the Jordan Valley

The Brighton Jordan Valley Solidarity Group currently have people on the ground in the Jordan Valley. With recent increased settler and army repression it is our aim to keep people in the valley on a permanent basis throughout the year.

The following reports are from our volunteers on the ground. Please help us spread information. If you are on twitter you can get our updates by following @jvsolidarity or @brightonjvs

Planned regime change in Libya

A March 25 White House press release announced Obama's planned March 28 national TV speech: "to update the American people on the situation in Libya, including the actions we've taken with allies and partners to protect the Libyan people from the brutality of Moammar Qaddafi, the transition to NATO command and control, and our policy going forward."

Imagine the hypocrisy. US-style "humanitarian intervention" reigns death and destruction "to protect the Libyan people." Recall how "shock and awe" protected Iraqis, how war on Afghanistan helps Afghans and neighboring Pakistanis from predatory drone and ground attacks. Libyans are now tasting imperial viciousness firsthand.

In fact, all US wars are imperial, not humanitarian, a long discredited propaganda ruse major media reports don't explain. Instead they cheerlead for war no matter how lawless, mindless, destructive or counterproductive, spreading malicious misinformation to justify intervention, concealing or downplaying the fallout from all conflicts let alone why they're waged.

Pirate for the Sea

Lex Rigby | 29-03-2011 13:04 | Animal Liberation | Ocean Defence | Sheffield

Come join us for a screen of the Whale Warrior - Pirate for the Sea in Sheffield on April 8th.

Pirate for the Sea

Lex Rigby | 29-03-2011 11:54 | Animal Liberation | Ocean Defence | Sheffield

Come join us for a screen of the Whale Warrior - Pirate for the Sea in Sheffield on April 8th.

Plutonium Found - Fukushima Update

Radio Ecoshock | 28-03-2011 21:24 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #5 March 28 in North America. Government scientists found plutonium outside the Fukushima nuclear complex. Damaged reactors are the suspected source. More radiation found in soil outside the plant, and by Greenpeace 40 kilometers away - far outside the 20 k evacuation zone. Japan's gov't forbids residents from going home. May become a giant no-go zone bisecting Japan. A continuing risk to the Northern Hemisphere.

Libya: The objective of "humanitarian bombing" is death and destruction

The objective is not to come to the rescue of civilians. Quite the opposite. Both military as well as civilian targets have been pre-selected.

Civilian casualties are intentional. They are not the result of "collateral damage".

Early reports confirm that hospitals, civilian airports and government buildings have been bombed.

The objective of the media disinformation campaign is to blatantly obfuscate the loss of life of civilians.

Tomahawk missiles and aerial bombings are upheld as instruments of peace and democracy. They do not result in civilian deaths.

Some photos from the TUC anti-cuts demo #march26

Chris | 26-03-2011 19:44 | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The turnout in London seemed about the scale of the anti-poll tax demo but not as big as the massive 2003 anti-Iraq war one. Attached are a few snap from the protest.

Photos of undercover Cop Simon Wellings

Undercurrents | 26-03-2011 14:40 | Repression | Sheffield | World

Photos of cop

The Guardian-Mark Kennedy: Confessions of an undercover cop

Here we go again. The little bastard just won't fuck off. Instead he reveals his sob story in the Guardian.

"After seven years spent living as an environmental activist, Mark Stone was revealed to be policeman Mark Kennedy. He talks to Simon Hattenstone about life on the outside, with no job, no friends and no idea who he really is."

Helen Caldicott on the Nuclear Disaster in Japan

Radio Ecoshock | 26-03-2011 04:42 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

World-famous anti-nuclear campaigner and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott in a major interview on the multiple reactor accident at Fukushima Japan. How to read through media misinformation, what this means for the nuke industry, including Europe, which may be severely damaged by a similar accident (or even radioactive pollution from "normal" operation of these plants. A historic interview.

Obama’s imperial twist: “Humanitarian” regime change in Libya

President Obama demanded regime change in Libya more than three weeks ago, but now acts as if that’s not his policy. He will use the assault on Muamar Khadafi’s forces to introduce so-called “humanitarian intervention” as an anchor of the Obama Doctrine. Regime change will remain a basic tool, while the “humanitarian” ruse expands imperial options. Obama may well opt to turn Libya into a kind of protectorate, as Haiti has become. Meanwhile, France interprets the UN mandate in Libya as allowing the Euro-Americans to act as air support for the rebel armed forces, as the French did at Benghazi.

BNP shit it out of South Tyneside

IHTF | 24-03-2011 19:16 | Anti-racism | Sheffield | World

The odious scumbags of the BNP are not to field a singal coandidate in South Shields due to infighting amid claims Nick Griffin is not fit to lead the party

Last min legal advice for Saturday

GBC & LDMG | 24-03-2011 18:44 | Sheffield

Last minute legal advice for the demonstrations this Saturday

Helen Caldicott on Japan Nuke Disaster

World-famous anti-nuke campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott talks the Japanese nuclear disaster with Radio host Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock. Is it the death knell of the nuke power industry? How much of Japan will be uninhabitable? Plus implications for U.S., Canada, and France. 28 minute interview March 23rd, 6 MB.

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